Councillors at yesterday's Dunedin City Council economic development committee meeting endorsed a resolution by Mayor Dave Cull thanking all those responsible for the city's triumph in the Gigatown competition.
However, some councillors also questioned what the city needed to do to move quickly and ensure it made the most of its win.
Mr Cull said that would be shaped, in part, by the city's business plan - prepared as part of the competition - but it would only be the start.
Other discussions were already under way, including with the University of Otago, to take advantage of the win ''for all sorts of purposes beyond our boundaries'', he said.
The city would receive $700,000 from Chorus as part of its prize, which was to encourage the use of gigabit-speed internet and its benefits.
Deputy mayor Chris Staynes said the ''big challenge'' was how to turn that funding into $2 million to $5 million of benefit for the city, helped by other funding partners.
The city had a three-year head start on other centres, and ''we need to do the absolute utmost to come out of it at the end with the high ground as a gigatown city'', he said.
